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Jacob Birtwhistle

Jacob Birtwhistle

Australian triathlete (born 1995)

Jacob Birtwhistle (born 4 January 1995) is an Australian triathlete.

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Running career

At the 2013 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race he finished 41st.[1]

He was crowned World School Cross Country Champion in 2012 in Malta. Throughout 2009-2012 he won 11 Australian junior athletics champion titles in 1500m, 3000m and 2000m steeple. 2013 he transitioned to Triathlon but still managed to win the much coveted Zatopec u/20 3000m title. 2015 he was runner up in the Australian senior 10k Road Running Championships as a 20yr old.

Duathlon career

Birtwhistle is a former duathlon junior world champion.[2]

Triathlon career

2013 season

Australian Junior champion, Oceania junior champion, u/23 Australian sprint champion,

2014 season

silver medallist World Junior Triathlon Championships

2015 season

He won the Under-23 World Championship.[3]

2016 season

Birtwhistle finished fourth at the Yokohama event second at the Hamburg event of the 2016 ITU World Triathlon Series.[4][5]

2017 season

Birtwhistle finished second at the Hamburg[6] and Edmonton[7] events of the 2017 ITU World Triathlon Series.

2018 season

Birtwhistle came second in a home Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, Australia.[8] He was also a member of the gold winning Australian mixed relay team.[9] In the 2018 ITU World Triathlon Series he took silver in Yokohama[10] and bronze in Edmonton[11] and Montréal.[12] He completed the year with 7th at the 2018 ITU World Triathlon Grand Final, also on the Gold Coast. That saw him finish third overall in the 2018 ITU World Triathlon Series.[13]

2019 season

2019 saw Birtwhistle take his first gold at an ITU Triathlon World Series race, winning in Leeds[14] (standard distance) and subsequently taking first place in Hamburg[15] later that season (sprint distance).

References

  1. [1]
    "Funding boost for Australian Junior Commonwealth Games squad". Firstoffthebike.com. 4 July 2013. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
  2. [2]
    "Now It Gets Serious for Triathlete Jacob Birtwhistle". The Mercury. 20 February 2015. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
  3. [3]
    McIntyre, Damian (18 September 2015). "Launceston athlete Jake Birtwhistle wins under-23 Triathlon World Championship - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)". ABC News. Abc.net.au. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
  4. [4]
    "Selectors Snub Jacob Birtwhistle in Right Rio Ripoff". The Mercury. 23 May 2016. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
  5. [5]
    "Jake Birtwhistle second in Hamburg triathlon, beats Australian Olympic athletes". Smh.com.au. 17 July 2016. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
  6. [6]
    "ITU Hamburg 2017". triathlon.org. 15 July 2017. Retrieved 1 November 2018.
  7. [7]
    "ITU Edmonton 2017". triathlon.org. 29 July 2017. Retrieved 1 November 2018.
  8. [8]
    "2018 Commonwealth Games Triathlon". triathlon.org. 5 April 2018. Retrieved 1 November 2018.
  9. [9]
    "2018 Commonwealth Games Triathlon Mixed Relay". triathlon.org. 7 April 2018. Retrieved 1 November 2018.
  10. [10]
    "ITU Yokohama 2018". triathlon.org. 12 May 2018. Retrieved 1 November 2018.
  11. [11]
    "ITU Edmonton 2018". triathlon.org. 27 July 2018. Retrieved 1 November 2018.
  12. [12]
    "ITU Montréal 2018". triathlon.org. 26 August 2018. Retrieved 1 November 2018.
  13. [13]
    "2018 World Triathlon Series". triathlon.org. 26 August 2018. Retrieved 1 November 2018.
  14. [14]
    "Results: Elite Men | 2019 AJ Bell World Triathlon Leeds".
  15. [15]
    "Results: Elite Men | 2019 Hamburg Wasser World Triathlon".
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